49 Writers and the Anchorage Museum present a talk and book signing with Caroline Van Hemert on Wednesday, March 20 from 7-8:30 PM for her newly released book, a memoir that blends Alaska adventure, natural history and personal narrative. Hear stories about her 4,000-mile wilderness journey from the Pacific rainforest to the Chukchi Sea. Her research […]
Water Mask, an essay collection by long-time Alaskan and children’s book author Monica Devine, will be published March 15 by the University of Alaska Press. From the back cover: “In Water Mask, Devine skis woodland trails with her baby on her back, navigates sea ice with whalers and whirls two thousand feet above the tundra with
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If you’ve spent any time around infants, you recognize how much of their waking existence is focused on where to look. Grownups look mostly out of necessity—for hazards on the road they’re driving, for the words they’re typing on the screen, for the next item on their to-do lists. Infants look out of wonder, delighted
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I’m a current public radio volunteer DJ and former journalist and producer, so when the idea came up to create a 49 Writers podcast, I thought it was fantastic. We decided the podcast would be a series of interviews with writers sparked by their response to the effect of the 2016 election on our psyche. The
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Guest Blogger, poet, and author Joanna Lilley will begin her upcoming “Milk Run Tour” of Alaska next week with a stop in Juneau. She’ll continue on to Cordova and Anchorage with readings and workshops in all three cities. We’re so pleased to be welcoming our literary neighbor from the Yukon. Click here to register for
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Imagine driving into the woods on a dirt road you have never traveled, looking for a boarded-up cabin, and hoping that it might be a shelter for your family after six weeks on the road. The grass and fireweed is head high, and only the roof is visible from the dirt trace someone called a
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It’s November 12, and the cherry tree has seven orange leaves clinging to its spindly limbs out in front of my office. The rest of the leaves are a bright mâché on the wet grass. The water and the sky have blended to the color of freshly poured cement and the air is cold as
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When I launched the project that would become my book Wealth Woman: Kate Carmack and the Klondike Race for Gold, one of the first people I told was my friend and fellow author Claire Rudolf-Murphy. Claire and Jane Haigh wrote Gold Rush Women, where I first read about Kate. There was a pause in Claire’s
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You Should Write a Play. You. The person reading this post. You know it’s crossed your mind. It was probably one of those stray thoughts you had the last time you got bored while sitting in a theatre. You were sitting there trying to stay engaged with what was happening on stage and wondering which
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A true-crime book about multiple grisly murders and the birth of the FBI that begins with descriptions of wildflowers. A commercial thriller that opens with immediate action and tension, featuring a woman spying on her neighbor, in the middle of a tawdry act. A literary novel full of unlikable characters in which we discover,
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